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Hoors
Small Town, Fife. Andy and Vicky were meant to be getting married tomorrow.
The trouble is, Andy's stag weekend was so epic, so legendary, that he didn't survive it. The finest pleasures that Amsterdam and Hamburg have to offer, together with a mile-high fling with a budget-airline stewardess, brought him down to earth with a bump. Now it's time for the post-mortem.
A black comedy about waking up to find the party's over, Gregory Burke's Hoors premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in May 2009.
The trouble is, Andy's stag weekend was so epic, so legendary, that he didn't survive it. The finest pleasures that Amsterdam and Hamburg have to offer, together with a mile-high fling with a budget-airline stewardess, brought him down to earth with a bump. Now it's time for the post-mortem.
A black comedy about waking up to find the party's over, Gregory Burke's Hoors premiered at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in May 2009.
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144 pages, Paperback
First published May 7, 2009
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Gregory Burke
36 books7 followersGregory Burke (born 1968) is a Scottish playwright from Rosyth, Fife, Scotland.
Gregory Burke's first play was Gagarin Way, set in the factories of West Fife. His play, Black Watch, for the National Theatre of Scotland, debuted at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival, meeting with critical acclaim, and has since been performed throughout Scotland and has also toured theatres in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. He has also written Occy Eyes, The Straits, Unsecured, On Tour, Liar and Shell shocked. His most recent play was Hoors, which opened at the Traverse Theatre on 1 May 2009.
His play Black Watch won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Play, the South Bank Show Theatre Award in 2007 and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2009.
Gregory Burke's first play was Gagarin Way, set in the factories of West Fife. His play, Black Watch, for the National Theatre of Scotland, debuted at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival, meeting with critical acclaim, and has since been performed throughout Scotland and has also toured theatres in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago. He has also written Occy Eyes, The Straits, Unsecured, On Tour, Liar and Shell shocked. His most recent play was Hoors, which opened at the Traverse Theatre on 1 May 2009.
His play Black Watch won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Play, the South Bank Show Theatre Award in 2007 and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2009.
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September 25, 2022
3.5, rounded down.
This play from 2009 seems to be Burke's last, and the reviews below appear to indicate why. This black comedy is different from his more somber stuff, but it suffers from a really excellent set-up that goes virtually nowhere for 144 pages. With four incredible actors, I could see it playing well, but ...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/200...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/200...
https://variety.com/2009/legit/review...#!
This play from 2009 seems to be Burke's last, and the reviews below appear to indicate why. This black comedy is different from his more somber stuff, but it suffers from a really excellent set-up that goes virtually nowhere for 144 pages. With four incredible actors, I could see it playing well, but ...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/200...
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/200...
https://variety.com/2009/legit/review...#!
March 30, 2020
2.5
Gregory Burke's reputation precedes him as the Great Modern Scottish Playwright, following the worldwide success of Black Watch, but his next play, Hoors (Scots for "whores"), arrived in 2009 with not so much a bang as a disappointing snivel.
To be fair, it's not that bad; it'd be okay for a debut! Hoors is mildly funny, showcasing its horribly immoral characters saying and doing horribly immoral things in a chuckle-worthy package, but the problem with it all is that it just doesn't go anywhere. A one-note non-event, there's some genuinely funny duologues, with terrific one-liners, in the form of occasionally verbose verbal volleys about sex and ageing, but these are really only-surface level observations with no depth, that we've seen time and time again in far superior instances.
Overall, tolerantly diverting if you fancy a quick read (Drama Online), but I can't imagine many people outside of Scotland finding much to laugh about - I find this is the case with the vast majority of Scottish creations - we're in a league of our own. ;)
Gregory Burke's reputation precedes him as the Great Modern Scottish Playwright, following the worldwide success of Black Watch, but his next play, Hoors (Scots for "whores"), arrived in 2009 with not so much a bang as a disappointing snivel.
To be fair, it's not that bad; it'd be okay for a debut! Hoors is mildly funny, showcasing its horribly immoral characters saying and doing horribly immoral things in a chuckle-worthy package, but the problem with it all is that it just doesn't go anywhere. A one-note non-event, there's some genuinely funny duologues, with terrific one-liners, in the form of occasionally verbose verbal volleys about sex and ageing, but these are really only-surface level observations with no depth, that we've seen time and time again in far superior instances.
Overall, tolerantly diverting if you fancy a quick read (Drama Online), but I can't imagine many people outside of Scotland finding much to laugh about - I find this is the case with the vast majority of Scottish creations - we're in a league of our own. ;)
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